The Panda Egg - LOGGED IN

LOGGED IN

After the Panda Egg connects to IGS, this window will be displayed. If you are a new user, you may wish to change your password and set your game preferences. Click on Setup to change your password, or, if you like, you can preset your game preferences by clicking on Setup game conditions.

To find opponents for a game, click on Play a game. To start observing games, click on Observe a game.

This is the main navigation window for the Panda Egg client. Return to this window to exit from IGS, and to play or observe games.

After clicking on Setup, this next window appears. Click on Change your password to change your password.

To set your game preferences, click on Setup game conditions.

If you chose Change your password, enter a new password, retype the new password, and then click on OK, or Cancel if you wish to choose another password or abort.

If you chose Setup games conditions, set your preferences in each of the fields. Note that there is no way to enter your rank from this window. You must use the telnet window to enter your rank.

This is the Play a game selection. This is a list of the players available for match requests, which includes players not involved in a game who are open for match requests.

A double click on a player's name will display a match request window. A single click on a player's name will allow you to make a selection from the sub-window. Select Tell to talk to the player, Stats to find a little information about the player, or Match to start a game. Select Message to leave a message for the player.

The stats window. This window displays information about a player.

This is the Observe a game selection. This window lists all the games currently being played. To begin observing a game, double click on any name, or the game number on the left.

This is the Restart an adjourned game selection. You can review your unfinished/adjourned games.

This small bar (Window Bar) will appear on your desktop in the upper right of your monitor display. The main navigation window is mainly for the very basic IGS functions, but IGS has many commands that are not directly available from that window. The Window Bar has three buttons, Chat, Telnet, and Info. The telnet window gives you access to most of the server commands, such as register and rank, as noted above. However, since there are entry places for them built into the PandaEgg, some commands, such as password, are not enabled in the telnet window. If you use a command that has an entry place elsewhere in the PandaEgg, you will get a message in the telnet window telling you that that command is disenabled. Clicking the Info button brings up a window that contains information about events, such as the Honinbo Title or the Kisei Title, that is not in the normal IGS motd. If you close the Window Bar, you can re-open it by going back to the main navigation window, and then right-clicking anywhere on the top dark blue window title bar.

Clicking on Telnet will bring up a telnet window, and from this window you can use all the IGS commands and functions, including the ones only supported by the main navigation window, except as noted above. There are two buttons in the lower right of the window, Send and Force Send. Send is the same as the Enter key. Force Send sends immediately without waiting for the prompt. Occasionally the telnet buffer will become full and will stop displaying new information. Click on Reset, which is located in the upper left of the telnet window.